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Club Sale | It’s done!
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Imagine wanting a takeover and not being happy they aren’t getting one.
Spoiled, huh?
It just made your rant funnier.
Flex said it like the Glazers were morally obliged to accept Qatar's offer.
I don’t think he’s being played. I think they’re quite happy playing the fans. He doesn’t really care about full ownership he just wants to be associate with United and eventually have INEOS associated too. He’s going to get just that without paying through the nose for full control of the club.
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Phenomenal
Adnan Janujaz can provide the youthful flair
Uh oh
Was just about to share this. When are they going to stop looking to SAF for guidance? Love the man but just him rest FFS and move on.
Edit: missed the Dougie Freedman thing. As bad a call as handpicking David Moyes as your successor.
Is the connection to INEOS still appropriate considering Ratcliffe has told creditors that none of INEOS money will be used to buy his United shares or fund United ?
Worrying
Pretty much repeating the same mistakes before even stepping foot in the job.
Surprised to see Bloomberg bring him on but I can't argue with anything he says - quite obviously the vast majority of fans wanted a full sale with the Glazers gone
if anyone has a link the full discussion then post it up
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Worrying that Dougie Freedman’s name keeps cropping up when it seemed pretty much nailed on that Paul Mitchell would be our new DOF.
Atalanta are doing well, any idea what this Lee fella is all about?
Wasn't he at Leicester before?
Edit: Yep.
https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/130984-congerton/#comment-6762524
I don’t know anything about Freedman as a DOF (or whatever role in that sphere he’d end up in) but Palace have never struck me as an amazing well club, or at least not to the extent you’d be poaching their guy. I could be completely wrong on that obviously.
Whats the reason given in the article why Ferguson been consulted is good news for Freedman? I know something that connects them but hardly a reason too give him a job.
Some glowing reviews there...
Used to be neighbours
Lee Congerton has to be a joke. Sunderland and Leicester fans think he's terrible. Hope we don't go for him.
Nothing is nailed on - this is basically now the same any transfer window gossip as we end up getting linked to anyone and everyone
Plus there is the possibility of someone like Mitchell coming in as Head of Recruitment and someone else for DoF or Sporting Director or whatever
True. Although we’ve been hearing for a while now that Jean Claude Blanc would replace Arnold as CEO and Mitchell would replace Murtough as DOF, although not set in stone they looked the favourites. I just hope we get these appointments right for once, we’ve fecked this up time and time again over the last 10 years.
Good God! That's Moyeseh's music!
Well since Blanc already works for INEOS and Mitchell is currently unemployed, they would be the easy options
But does make sense to consider all options before going into a much needed restructure
I think the vast majority wanted a full takeover rather than this 25% bollocks. Qatar, US, UK it doesn’t matter much if you want to act righteous you can find fault with any country
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I had a dream this would happen. Fergie can spot a player but and a major but I’m 99% it was him who suggested bringing a clearly over it and used up ronaldo back on the worst contract and that was clearly horrible horrible judgment even for armchair fans. Moyes ditto. We need fresh eyes an aggressive youth driven and physical/athletic approach, no favouritism and a brand new start. We need to start developing our own new leaders in house.
Fergie regularly asked Busby and Charlton for advice back in the day. He took things on board but wasn't afraid to put his own stamp on things.
I'm all for new ideas but thinking back to the last point in time where the club functioned correctly isn't a bad place to start a meaningful rebuild. Certainly, now Ratcliffe is examining the wider structure on the playing side, speaking to (I assume) many people can only be a good thing. It would be interesting to see who else he is speaking to.
Sure, Fergie's Moyes and Ronaldo interventions proved to be incorrect, but they perhaps needed a stronger person inside the club to not take on that particular bit of advice. It's also worth noting, for what it's worth, that the rank and file support were largely in favour of those decisions at the time.
18 years of the Glazers has really warped people's minds. Perfectly reasonable things are now sending people to meltdown.
People were more than happy for Beckham to be the face of the Qatar state bid as well.
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oh ffs
None of this 25% thing is going to change anything other than the Glazers overseeing an improvement off the pitch and using the name of the club as their gambit, nothing changes until they leave and a full sale happens, which sadly won't be anytime soon.
He was almost certainly responsible for bringing Ole in as manager too. Doubt that Woodward even knew who Ole was.
How does that work if the sporting department is being restructured? Does that not count as a change to you? It’s literally the most significant change we could make.
Was listening to the Gab and Jules podcast and they make a good point about ETH, mentioning that his player knowledge is probably limited due to him mostly working under a DOF. Never really thought about it like that.
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